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Larval settlement of soft-sediment invertebrates: the spatial scales of pattern explained by active habitat selection and the emerging rôle of hydrodynamical processes
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Global patterns of macroinvertebrate production in marine benthic habitats
Mathieu Cusson,Edwin Bourget +1 more
TL;DR: In general, higher values of production to biomass (P/B) ratios were observed in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, and abiotic variables were more important than environmental variables in explaining observed variations in production and P/B ratios.
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Eutrophication and Zoobenthos dynamics
TL;DR: The Pearson-Rosenberg Model that describes the effects of organic enrichment on qualitative characteristics of benthic communities describes three successive states: a) slight increases in biomass and few or no changes in species composition over the “normal” situation; b) strong increases of biomass and replacement of “ normal” species by opportunistic species; and c) disappearance ofbenthic animal species and azoic sediments.
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Variability in recruitment of coral reef fishes : The importance of habitat at two spatial scales
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated spatial and temporal variability in recruitment of coral reef fishes to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, with the goal of assessing the importance of habitat and physical oceanographic processes in determining patterns of distribution at two spatial scales.
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Hydrologic and behavioral constraints on oviposition of stream insects: implications for adult dispersal
TL;DR: Oviposition and emergence of a bivoltine population of B. bicaudatus in multiple stream reaches in one high-altitude watershed in western Colorado over 3 years was surveyed to determine whether hydrologic variation necessitated dispersal of females to find suitable oviposition sites and whether the local supply of females could provide the supply of local recruits, and whether local recruitment determined the local production of adults.
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Smothering of estuarine sandflats by terrigenous clay: the role of wind-wave disturbance and bioturbation in site-dependent macrofaunal recovery
Alf Norkko,Simon F. Thrush,Judi E. Hewitt,Vonda J. Cummings,Joanna Norkko,Joanne I. Ellis,Greig A. Funnell,Diane Schultz,Iain MacDonald +8 more
TL;DR: The results emphasise the role of wind-wave disturbance and transport of sediments and macrofauna with bedload, and the importance of bioturbation by crabs as facilitators of macrobenthic recovery after disturbance, in the response of intertidal benthos to depositions of terrigenous clay.